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Hello and welcome to Tuesday In Parliament, | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
our look at the best of the day in the Commons and the Lords. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Expansion of Heathrow Airport is given the go-ahead | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Heathrow expansion is neithdr possible nor deliverable. | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
It delivers the greatest economic and strategic | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
May I congratulate my right honourable friend in taking | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
the right decision in the interests of the United Kingdom? | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
The Government should not be in the business | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
MPs delve into so-called "revolving-door syndrome", | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
when an ex-Minister gets a job in business after politics. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Can you tell me what you've done in your two years in office | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
that gives you satisfaction, where you served the public interdst? | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
I take pleasure in every dax, Mr Flynn, as I'm sure | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
And the Chancellor sounds a warning on Brexit. | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
European politicians are very conscious of | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
the impact of Britain's dep`rture and their political project. | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
The Government has given its blessing to an expansion | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
The decision has been long `waited, but it may not be final. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Parliament will vote in a ydar's time on the third runway pl`n. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
There could still then be years of legal argument. | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Heathrow, Britain's only hub airport, | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
is currently at 98% capacitx, handling 480,000 flights a xear | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
That compares with 700,000 flights a year at Amsterdam, | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
A third runway at Heathrow will cost around ?17 billion. | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
Construction over the next decade could create 77,000 jobs. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
In the Commons, the Transport Secretary said the decision to | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
go ahead with Heathrow expansion safeguarded the UK's prosperity | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Last year, Britain's airports handled | :02:13. | :02:13. | |
Heathrow is the busiest two,runway airport in the world, | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
and Gatwick the busiest single-runway airport. | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Indeed, the London system whll be almost entirely full by 2030, | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
with the exception of a small amount of capacity at Luton, | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
and that will be taken up soon afterwards. | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
If we do nothing, the cost to our nation is significant, | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
amounting to more than ?20 billion over 60 years through delays, | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
fewer flights and passengers having to fly from airports elsewhdre. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
In addition, the wider impacts on our economy are in the rdgion | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
That is why the decision we have reached today is so important | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
He said the detailed study of the Airports Commission, | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
led by the economist Howard Davies, recommended a new North-West | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
The commission's report and the subsequent informathon | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
formed the basis of the discussion that took place this morning | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
As a result of that discusshon, the Government have decided | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
We believe that the expansion of Heathrow airport | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
and the north-west runway scheme, in combination with a significant | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
package of supporting measures on the scale recommended | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
by the Airports Commission, offers the greatest benefit | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
to passengers and business, and will help us to deliver | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
the broadest possible benefht to the whole United Kingdom. | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
It delivers the greatest economic and strategic | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
It strengthens connectivity for passengers right | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
It offers a major boost to freight operators. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
It can be delivered within carbon and air quality limits | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
and, crucially, it comes with world-leading measures | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
to limit the impacts on those living nearby. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
There have been recent suggdstions in the media that the process has | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
Members will remember the s`ga of the planning process | :04:09. | :04:21. | |
behind Terminal 5, which took years to resolve. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
He said a consultation procdss will start in the New year. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
The issue of runway capacitx in the south-east has | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
challenged successive Administrations for decades. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
There are strong feelings both for and against | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
This is not the scheme that was previously promoted in 2009. | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
It does much more to mitigate environmental impacts, | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
to compensate communities and to distribute benefits | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Today's announcement is not the end of the process, | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
It beggars belief that it h`s taken Ministers more than a year | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
since the publication of thd Davies report even to make a start. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Just what have they been dohng for all these months, | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
apart from worrying about splits in the Cabinet, | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
and the Foreign Secretary throwing himself in front | :05:12. | :05:12. | |
of the bulldozers and former mayoral candidates triggering by-eldctions? | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
There is no justification for dithering on this scale. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
He has failed to provide the shorter timescale | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
for getting to the national policy statement that was set out | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
The lack of a vote in this House for more than a year will not allow | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
and the soap opera will therefore continue. | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
That said, we welcome the announcement of Heathrow | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
Although airport expansion of this type disproportionately bendfits | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
the south-east of England, it has strategic consequencds | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
Mr Speaker, I congratulate ly right honourable friend for taking | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
the right decision in the interest of the United Kingdom. | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
Could he remind the House how much passenger traffic | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
much freight traffic is currently being lost to mainland European | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
airports as a result of lack of capacity in the south-east? | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
I believe that this decision is misguided and not ultimately | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
Will the Secretary of State assure me that in the consultation | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
and scrutiny to come there will be good and adequate scientific data, | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
because the evidence will show that Heathrow expansion is neithdr | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
In the Minister's words, we do not want expansion "at any cost" - | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
this is the wrong scheme and the price is too high. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
The decision to build a new runway at Heathrow is the right ond, | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
but it is absolutely vital that the Secretary of State delivers | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
on his pledge to ensure that the benefits of expanshon | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
are felt in every nation and region of the UK. | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
As the chair of the Gatwick co-ordination group, | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
I congratulate my right honourable friend on this announcement and make | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
with which this somewhat ovdrdue statement will be received | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
by all the people representdd by colleagues in the group. | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
The Government have chosen ` course that is not only wrong but doomed. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
It is wrong because of the lillion people who will suffer | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
directly on the back of the environmental harm this | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
It is doomed because the complexities, cost and legal | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
complications mean that the project is almost certainly not | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
I believe it will be a millstone around the Government's neck | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
for many years to come - a constant source of delay, | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Is not the biggest loser from the Tory civil war | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
over Heathrow neither the Foreign Secretary nor the honourabld | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
member for Richmond Park but transport everywhere else? | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
For over five years, there has been an obsessive focus | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
While welcoming this decision, may I ask the Homd | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
Counties-based Cabinet to lhsten to what William Hague has s`id | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
today, and set out in the attumn statement a clear timetable for HS3, | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
linking Manchester Airport to the great cities of the north? | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
This is a devastating decishon for the national economic interest | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
as well as for my constituents, hundreds of whose homes will be | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
bulldozed, and for the millhons of people affected by the vdry loud | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
This statement has been long overdue. | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
Some countries will have developed three entire nuclear power stations | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
and five airports in the amount of time this has taken to bd kicked | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
into the long grass by two Labour Prime Ministers and H am | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
afraid a Conservative Prime Minister too. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
I do not share this cosy consensus on airport expansion. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
Half the population each year does not fly - | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
for environmental reasons, I have not flown for several years. | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
The Secretary of State said today that this expansion would | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
Because of climate change, the Government should not bd | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
in the business of encouraghng people to fly and encouraging more | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
air freight, let alone subshdising increased airport capacity | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
I urge the Secretary of State and the Government to think again. | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
Why are the Government disrdgarding "widespread hostility", | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
and bulldozing through a thhrd runway which will inflict | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
crippling noise, significant climate change effects, | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
health-damaging pollution and catastrophic congestion | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Because we do not believe that it is going to do thosd | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
things, because we do not bdlieve that it will create the air | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
because we do not believe that it will impose | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
I have already explained the position | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
relating to public transport access and improved | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
And there was also plenty of reaction to the Heathrow | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
expansion announcement over in the House of Lords. | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
Many young people at the job centres in West London know how important | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
that skilled employment is at Heathrow. | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
So I do say, let's get on whth it and make a plea to those people | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
who are opposed to it to look at the depth and qu`lity | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
of the evidence in favour from business, from trade unions - | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
all the trade unions bar one, all of them - | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
and say this project needs to go ahead. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
With all of business crying out for this to happen and yet | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
all this opposition, there is going to be a lot | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Why didn't the Government then go ahead, as my noble friend s`id | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
earlier, and allow Gatwick and Heathrow to expand? | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
The Gatwick expansion, wouldn't the noble lord agrde, | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Will my noble friend considdr that expanding Heathrow will increase | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
foreign monopoly and power, and we can airport competithon | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
It will affect hundreds of thousands more people than Gatwick wotld have, | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
it will add to safety and sdcurity risks by sending hundreds | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
of thousands more flights over our most densely populated areas, | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
it will cost ?8,000 million, at least, more | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
than the proposed Gatwick option, and it will take longer to build | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
than the proposed Gatwick option, keeping Britain closed | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
I must declare an interest as living under the flight path | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
the Heathrow Association of the Control of Aircraft Noise. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
The announcement acknowledgds that the current constraints | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
by talking about more reliable respite. | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
The Minister will be aware that the measurements | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
of noise do not accord with the residents' experience. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
I'm sure he will also agree that the best predictor | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
A Bill designed to help clalp down on money-laundering | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
and prevent the financing of terrorist activity has bden given | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
The Criminal Finances Bill hs also aimed increasing the retrieval rate | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
It creates so-called "unexplained wealth orders" which may repuire | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
an individual to explain thd sources of his or her wealth. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
The Commons has held its first debate | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
Some of the most expensive properties in the capital | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
are unoccupied because they have been bought solely for the purpose | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
So, in 2016, money-laundering is something that is not just | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
happening in accountancy offices or in the back rooms of banks, | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
it is happening in plain sight of ordinary Londoners. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Because we see some of the lost expensive domestic propertids | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
in the world change hands, but remain mysteriously | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
We should be rightly proud of the UK's status | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
This is the one of the best places in the world to do business, | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
but we must recognise the shze of our financial sector and open | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
economy and the attractivendss of London property market | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
to overseas investors makes this country unusually exposed | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
to the risks of internation`l money-laundering. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
That is why the Government hs taking action to combat money-laundering, | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
terrorist finance and corruption here and overseas. | :13:38. | :13:38. | |
We are sending a clear mess`ge that we will not stand | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
for money-laundering or the funding of terrorism through the UK. | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
After the global financial crisis, property in London | :13:45. | :13:45. | |
has become one of the safest investments in the world, | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
one which rich criminals and money-launderers attracted | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
to in just the same way as people who have made their | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Put shortly, Londoners want this stain removing from their chty, | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
We will not trigger a divishon on this Bill this evening, | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
but we want to reiterate very, very firmly that this Bill does not | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
go anywhere near far enough in dealing with what I think | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
is a real and tangible outcry from the public, | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
given what has happened over the last five, six, seven ydars | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
If we are serious about maintaining and creating confidence | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
in the banking system again, which has completely evapor`ted | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
then we need to tackle this issue head on and do more | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
You're watching our round-up of the day in the Commons and the Lords. | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
Still to come: Are too many ex-Government Ministers takhng up | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
jobs in the business world secured because of their days | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
The Chancellor has warned MPs not to assume that the negotiathons | :14:41. | :14:50. | |
on the UK's exit from the European Union will onlx be | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
Britain's departure, he said, would impact on EU's | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
He also gave a warning that leaving the European single market | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
for goods and services - the so-called Hard Brexit option - | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
could be "quite challenging" for British firms. | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
The subject was raised by the SNP's spokesman. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
What efforts is the Chancellor making to rule out a hard Brexit, | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
with visas, tariff barriers and an end to the customs union | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
all of which the Treasury s`ys could lead to the loss | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
of ?66 billion of revenue, a reduction in GDP of around 7. % | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
and a threat, estimated conservatively, to | :15:28. | :15:28. | |
The Prime Minister has been very clear. | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
We understand the instructions that we have received | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
from the British people, and within our obligation to deliver | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
those we will seek to get the very best deal we can | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
with the European Union that maximises the amount of trade | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
in goods and services between our companies | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
and the markets of the European Union, and between European | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
Financial services are one of the sectors most exposed | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
to Brexit, but it is not just jobs in Canary Wharf and the squ`re | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
mile that are at risk; it is jobs throughout the UK, | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
in Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh and beyond. | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
The messages that the Government have sent so far have been | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Firms need assurance that they will get comparable access | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
to the single market and thd ability to retain EU nationals | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
Will the Chancellor help finally to put an end to his Governlent s | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
chaos today and make a promise to deliver both? | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
The honourable gentleman is right to identify financial | :16:33. | :16:33. | |
services as one of the areas that is particularly concerned | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
about the way in which the dxit from the European Union is lanaged, | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
because the industry is particularly dependent on the passporting | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
He is also right to draw attention to the often overlooked fact that | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
75% of financial services jobs are outside London. | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
This is an important UK-wide industry. | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
Financial services, he said, would be at the heart | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
We understand their need for market access. | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
We also understand their nedd to be able to engage the right | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
I have said on the record - I am happy to say this again today - | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
that I do not believe that the concerns the British people | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
have expressed about migrathon from the European Union rel`te | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
to those with high skills and high pay. | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
The problem that people are concerned about relates to those | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
I see no likelihood of our tsing powers to control migration | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
into the UK to prevent comp`nies from bringing highly skilled, | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
Unless, bizarrely, the European Union were to hmpose | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
trade sanctions on the UK, there would be absolutely nothing | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
to prevent us from having access to the single market | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
My honourable friend is right in the sense that every | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
nation that is a member of the World Trade Organisation | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
as we are, has the right to access other members' markets on WTO terms. | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
However, WTO terms would be quite challenging | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
For example, in the automothve industry, WTO terms imply | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
a 10% tariff on cars entering other markets. | :18:11. | :18:23. | |
May I suggest that as there is a large balance of payments | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
deficit with Europe, specifically in the automothve | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
sector, it would be in the DU's interest to strike a decent deal | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
Our intention is to get the very best deal we can with our ndighbours | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
in the European Union to allow access for our companies | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
to trade their goods and services into the EU. | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
However, I would just caution my honourable Friend: | :18:50. | :18:50. | |
to look at the economic argtments alone is to miss an important point. | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
There is a political debate going on here in Europe, | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
and European politicians ard very conscious of the impact | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
of Britain's departure on their political project. | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
I do not think we can be certain that economics alone will dhctate | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
A year ago it was learnt th`t more than a dozen politicians | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
who were Ministers during the years of the Con-Lib-Dem Coalition | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
Government had accepted poshtions with companies and charities they'd | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
come across in their ministerial roles. | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
The disclosure led to calls for tighter controls on what's known | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
as the "revolving door" between politics and the business | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
world, by which ex-Ministers are able to gain employment thanks | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
to contacts they've made during their ministerial ye`rs. | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
Already in place is a body called Acoba, or the Advisory Commhttee | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
But when its chairman came `long to a Commons committee hearhng, | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
MPs questioned whether Acob` was achieving very much. | :19:48. | :20:02. | |
We've preferred to Private dye before and in their report, public | :20:03. | :20:12. | |
servants and private paydays, they said that 367 jobs, which h`ve | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
sought clearance from Acoba since 2010, zero times Acoba has refused | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
them. Given that, as evidence of your organisation, how good are you | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
in policing? We're not a regulatory body, with an advisory body. I have | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
to cite two things. We had `n advisory body, not a regulatory | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
body. We don't have the powdr to deprive people of employment, that | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
is backed up by the restraint of trade law that we have to bdar in | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
mind. If you're asking me, why don't we just let these things run their | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
course and go to court as the most certainly would, I suspect | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
applicants would certainly have .. I think there is indication from | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
monetary cases we dealt with, would have their financial backing of the | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
people who wanted to employ them to mount a legal challenge. How many | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
times have you advised formdr ministers that what they were | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
proposing to terms of the job was unacceptable? Where would the public | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
find that information? Everxthing is in the public domain. Most of the | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
things in the press are onlx there because Acoba has a website that we | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
publish on. It couldn't be lore transparent. When you say mhnisters, | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
we obviously apply different rules in individual cases, to Wii make | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
2-to-1 minister, wait for shx months -- we might see to one minister -- | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
say, wait for six months, that is the way we can get them to lodify | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
any potential behaviour that they might have had in taking up the | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
post, but we haven't got thd power to tell somebody they cannot do | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
they cannot work. They could just shrug their shoulders and s`y OK, | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
but in the main, people comd to Acoba and they take our advhce. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
Isn't it to the ultimate power you have is the same as people who | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
ignore your together, the stmmit of your powers is to send a letter to | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
them expressing your disple`sure? We add an advisory committee, not | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
regulatory. I can't repeat that enough. We had an advisory | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
committee. I'm well aware of that, but due to years in office, is a | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
giddy satisfaction to serve the public interest? I take in ht every | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
day -- I take pleasure in it. We worked diligently and ethic`lly I'm | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
trying to get to the numbers. Is Acoba doing anything good you said | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
you have made a lot of defence is about Acoba and the people there and | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
there are rights of work. How is the public interest being served by | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
Acoba in preventing the abuse of the revolving door? We have considered | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
each individual case and those that take up the advice and who take up | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
the job, we have put that into the public domain. Had we not done that, | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
if we didn't do that as Acoba, these things would be a secret and down to | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
investigative journalists to unearth and put them into the public domain. | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
Investigative journalists don't need to do that, they only have to visit | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
our website. Earlier this month, | :23:51. | :23:51. | |
Sir Cliff Richard came to P`rliament to ask MPs and peers to grant | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
anonymity to people The singer says he fears he will be | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
forever "tainted" by false allegations made | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
against him two years ago. In June, the Crown Prosecuthon | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
Service announced it would bring no charges | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
after a lengthy police inquhry. In the House of Lords, | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
a senior Conservative voiced concerns about the ease | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
with which the reputations of In relation to allegations of sexual | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
abuse, does my noble friend agree that many people are asking | :24:17. | :24:30. | |
themselves and Members of both Houses of Parliament | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
whether the presumption of hnnocence until proved guilty | :24:34. | :24:34. | |
is still in existence? Is it not our duty to take `ction - | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
either by instituting anonylity until the point of charge, | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
as backed by the Director of Public Prosecutions last week, | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
or by other effective means - to reduce the terrible toll | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
of suffering caused by falsd and malicious allegations | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
against innocent people Finally, do the Government `gree | :24:48. | :24:48. | |
that the institutions of both state and church need to show much greater | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
concern for the reputations of eminent people from the past | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
who cannot speak for themselves It is important to say | :25:00. | :25:16. | |
that there is a very fine The voicing of victims' concerns | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
and the naming of people in the public interest to allow | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
further evidence or further victims to come forward needs to be balanced | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
with the right to privacy and protection of the person | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
who is suspected. Do join me for our | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
next daily round-up. Until then, from me, | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Keith Macdougall, goodbye. | :25:45. | :25:52. |